Imaging Planes - Video Lesson

This lesson is about the imaging planes used in computed tomography. In CT, it is very important to think of the patient as a three object. That's because the patient is a three-dimensional object, and because the data created in CT includes all three dimensions. And this is obviously different from general radiography. X-ray images are a flat image that only show two dimensions of anatomical information. With CT imaging, we're actually creating a volume of information in three dimensions. This volume of information can be difficult to explain, and that's why we have imaging axes or planes in CT imaging. The x axis in CT extends horizontally across the scanner, and this represents image data coordinates in terms of right and left. And so if we change the x axis coordinates of a piece of information in the CT